It's been a long time, but I seem to remember that you get a certain amount of life insurance for free. Is that incorrect? Waiving FEGLI seems like a bad idea to me. No, I do not believe there is free insurance. The Basic coverage is subsidized, however, and as described there is an "Extra Ben...

Greetings all - Starting employment with the federal government after Labor Day and am trying to work through the FEGLI question. My instincts are to waive coverage entirely and stick with term policies, but I want to make sure I'm not missing something since it is so difficult to get FEGLI if you w...

Keep the TSP account forever. It is simplicity itself along with the lowest fees possible. And the G fund, which can't be beat as a fixed-income, bond fund. And you can rollover either kind of IRA into your TSP account. https://www.tsp.gov/planparticipation/transfers/eligibility.shtml That's not qu...

I recently finished Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick, I Am Legend by Richard Matheson, Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut, The Fault in Our Stars by John Green, The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker, The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky, and Thomas Jefferson by Jon ...

In the three or four books I've read on Vietnam lately...the Americans had one serious and persistent enemy. Platoon Leader: A Memoir of Command in Combat (A friend gave me a stack of "Infantry" magazines published by the Infantry School at Ft. Benning. They recommended this book....so I ...

II think you may be right. Question is, why? How are their needs so different from someone with much less? If nothing else, you're talking about completely different time horizons. Most of us think about how to make our money last our lifetime, maybe leave something to our kids if we're lucky. The ...

Now starting volume 1 of Robert Caro's biography of Lyndon Johnson, The Path to Power ... I've been wanting to read that for awhile, but I try not to start a series until I know it is finished. Caro has been particularly frustrating, since what was supposed to be a three-volume series then became f...

How permanent does it need to be? We have a locked, gated fence around our entire backyard, which satisfied the city's requirements for safety, but we also wanted a pool fence so that we could let our small child play in the backyard without getting into the pool. Since we won't need the pool fence ...